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Henry Lunt: biography and history of the development of Southern Utah and settling of Colonia Pacheco, Mexico

iron to almost any amount could soon be manufactured. The machinery is of the best kind and works well and would do for a much larger fbmace than what is up. In haste, I am yours, Henry Lunt. The settlers harvested many loads of grass hay from the "meadow" which Henry claimed was the finest meadow he had ever seen in the mountains. It took almost an entire day to harvest a load of hay since the meadow was about six miles from the settlement. A spark from Brother Keir's pipe started a fire in the meadow on October 18. The fire, fanned by a strong wind, spread rapidly. It appeared as though the entire crop would bum. There was a large stack of hay belonging to Brother Bosnell directly in the path of the flames as well as small stacks belonging to others. Henry wrote: "I fell on my knees and asked my Heavenly father to cause that the fire might stay its raging and destruction. By my exertions for about two hours I succeeded in putting the whole of it out." The next day Brother Bosnell visited Henry and said he was very much obliged to him for saving the hay, but he could not promise a reward for the trouble it took. That afternoon the fire started up again and burned Bosnell's stack of hay to the g r o ~ n d . ~ The five men who went to Salt Lake City for conference returned on October 23. The day after they returned one of the men, Brother Bladen, examined the inside of the blast furnace and discovered a quantity of pure, malleable iron of a very superior quality in a solid lump weighmg about 400 pounds. This discovery caused considerable excitement among the iron mongers. Henry's article in the Deseret News published on December 2, contained the following: "The greatest difficulty, in my opinion, is that the ore is so very rich that we are not acquainted with a system easy and simple enough to convert it into 'pig metal'." The settlers were ikormed that Erastus Snow and Franklin D. Richards were on their way to Cedar City with another company of brethren from England to join the present men working at the Iron Works. Consequently, it was deemed wisdom to stop working until they arrived and another organization was formed.' On Monday,

iron to almost any amount could soon be manufactured. The machinery is of the best kind and works well and would do for a much larger fbmace than what is up. In haste, I am yours, Henry Lunt. The settlers harvested many loads of grass hay from the "meadow" which Henry claimed was the finest meadow he had ever seen in the mountains. It took almost an entire day to harvest a load of hay since the meadow was about six miles from the settlement. A spark from Brother Keir's pipe started a fire in the meadow on October 18. The fire, fanned by a strong wind, spread rapidly. It appeared as though the entire crop would bum. There was a large stack of hay belonging to Brother Bosnell directly in the path of the flames as well as small stacks belonging to others. Henry wrote: "I fell on my knees and asked my Heavenly father to cause that the fire might stay its raging and destruction. By my exertions for about two hours I succeeded in putting the whole of it out." The next day Brother Bosnell visited Henry and said he was very much obliged to him for saving the hay, but he could not promise a reward for the trouble it took. That afternoon the fire started up again and burned Bosnell's stack of hay to the g r o ~ n d . ~ The five men who went to Salt Lake City for conference returned on October 23. The day after they returned one of the men, Brother Bladen, examined the inside of the blast furnace and discovered a quantity of pure, malleable iron of a very superior quality in a solid lump weighmg about 400 pounds. This discovery caused considerable excitement among the iron mongers. Henry's article in the Deseret News published on December 2, contained the following: "The greatest difficulty, in my opinion, is that the ore is so very rich that we are not acquainted with a system easy and simple enough to convert it into 'pig metal'." The settlers were ikormed that Erastus Snow and Franklin D. Richards were on their way to Cedar City with another company of brethren from England to join the present men working at the Iron Works. Consequently, it was deemed wisdom to stop working until they arrived and another organization was formed.' On Monday,